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retrodating

retrodating is the present participle and gerund of retrodate.

Meaning of retrodate

Verb

retrodate (third-person singular simple present retrodates, present participle retrodating, simple past and past participle retrodated)

  1. (transitive) To assign a date to (a publication) that is earlier than the real one.

Questions about retrodating

What is retrodating the present participle and gerund of?
Retrodating is the present participle and gerund of retrodate.

Words near retrodating in the dictionary

  1. retrocycloadditions
  2. retrod
  3. retrodate
  4. retrodated
  5. retrodates
  6. retrodating
  7. retrodden
  8. retrodeform
  9. retrodeformable
  10. retrodeformation
  11. retrodeformations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retrodating (page history and authors); retrodate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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